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| Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3 (Voices That Matter) | 
| Authors: Stephanie Sullivan, Greg Rewis
Publisher: New Riders Press
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (17 reviews)
Sales Rank: 38275
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 360
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0321508971
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.7
EAN: 9780321508973
ASIN: 0321508971
Publication Date: April 12, 2008
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Product Description
In Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3, authors Stephanie Sullivan and Greg Rewis demonstrate how to use Dreamweaver CS3 and CSS together to create highly individualized, standards-based layouts. Through hands-on projects with visuals, the book gives readers an in-depth understanding of Dreamweaver's 32 CSS-based layouts (new in Dreamweaver CS3) and their application, enabling every user of Dreamweaver to learn CSS effectively and easily.
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 Must-have for Web Designers using Dreamweaver January 3, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this book when it was first released, and it's already dog-eared! I have to "learn by doing" to grasp the concepts, whether it's on a web project, or exercises. This book not only covers what is (and should be) relevant to designers keeping abreast of best practices using Dreamweaver as a tool, but does it well, and I had no problem understanding the projects as they were written. Also, some of the chapters are a great ongoing resource for me ... such as the one on elastic layouts. Greg and Stephanie know their stuff! Would definitely recommend it to anyone in this profession. I do think that a beginner's knowledge of Dreamweaver, css and xhtml would be helpful prior to working on the projects in the book.
My favorite DW book December 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I know a little about web development and have a working knowledge of DW. DW comes with many layouts, which are excellent, but very professional, and thus somewhat complex. The DW layouts were constructed by Stephanie Sullivan, one of the authors. This book emphasizes these layouts, and explains them clearly, and in detail, a huge step in learning CSS and DW re layouts. Much more about CSS is also included in this book.
I gave this book a 5-star, for many reasons. The text is very thoughtfully, and clearly written, excellent syntax, and easy to follow. It is exceptionally well-illustrated with clear titles, lots of space to separate concepts, lists, instructions, and examples, etc.
I have several DW books; but this is still the most well-organized, and clearly written. At my stage no book can make CSS/DW easy, but this book does a fabulous job.
Excellent! December 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Overall, I think that this is probably the best CSS Dreamweaver title that I have come across (and this is saying something not only because I normally prefer training DVDs, but also because I have accessed a lot of material over the last two years regarding CSS and Dreamweaver).
The explanations are, I think, crystal clear ... but then again, I know a lot about CSS and Dreamweaver. For those who don't have a sound understanding of both ... you may struggle with the 'assumed knowledge' aspect to this book.
I really love / enjoy the 'complete the project by the end of the chapter' format. Also excellent are the exercise files that come with this book - especially the completed webpages that readers can sneak a look at, so that they know exactly what they are striving to create.
Final word, a wonderful book, easy to follow, well set out, great graphics and comprehensive. Be warned though - this isn't a book suitable for the beginner (who should use Lynda.com's 'Dreamweaver CS3 with CSS Essential Training' DVD for a gentle introduction to CSS).
 Vague and disappointing December 8, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There is always one thing I really despise about these type of books and that is when you follow the exercises and directions to a tee and it never works. This is that type of book. The exercises are unclear, ambiguous and very poorly written.
 For those who only use the design view of Dreamweaver November 25, 2008
This book is very good at what it does - it is an advanced css book that shows you how to build Standards compliant sites using Dreamweaver in the design view. It is a slightly funny thing, because people who build css sites in general do not use the design view - they use the code view. Dreamweaver's code view has easy-to-use code hints and the great find and replace tool - those are the reasons I use Dreamweaver. However, it is hard to find a reference for doing css related tasks from the design view, and that is exactly what this book does so well. I can't think of any other book that has taken this particular angle on css. Back in the MX days there was a book Dreamweaver MX Templates that was as unique and ambitious as this, covering proprietary Dreamweaver skills at an advanced level, but that book is far out of date, while this book is incredibly timely. I recommend this book, but would say that it may be worth trying to learn how to write code in the code view. When you are coding from the design view, you have one more level of abstraction between you and the matter at hand than is necessary. It may be EASIER to code from the design view, and the skills you gain will not need to be updated when a new version of the software comes out. If you are set on using the design view, this book will be a great find, if you are interested in writing code directly, CSS Web Site Design Hands on Training (Hands-On Training) is very easy to follow and teaches some great techniques.
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